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Guys, i hope you can give me some advice. As noticed in the Title i am looking for an integrated forum. I prefer an simple forum with logon function and not much more, well it have to look good offcourse. :thumbup: I have found 3 options: 1.) ITCN Enterprise Forums (I prefer) URL: http://forum.itcn.com/forum.aspx Price: $39 US 2.) Toast Forums URL: http://www.toastforums.com/demo/toast.asp Price: $178 US 3.) snitz forum URL: http://forum.snitz.com/forum/ Price: Free but with ads Can you give me some advice about these or did i mis the perfect forum for me? Thanks for your time! Greetings from a Proud Dutch User!
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Tijmen, You are missing really cool one yet another forumsWe have used it on two websites so far. The core site has been powered by umbraco of course and the forum with yet another forum. Its .net20 / opensource / dont have to keep adds / totally skinable. Regards Isamil
Level 2 certified. If it aint broke dont fix.
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Yet another great reply :thumbup:
I`m gonna try it in an fresh umbraco installation tonight.
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Yes - Yet another forum does seem the best choice just today I also installed it on my Umbraco site can see example here http://www.catsanddogs.co.nz/forum.aspxI am having one issue though all the links are wrong eg they all point to default.aspx?querystring where it should be forum.asx?querystring I guess somewhere in the YAF forum code its using Request.Url which I guess thats why its getting the default.aspx from.
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is the a config setting to set the root url of the forum???
bootnumlock - aka bob baty-barr [ http://www.baty-barr.com] Level 1 Certified!
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Hi all,
I'm very interesting in a forum too, and haven't ever integrated with one...
To anyone who has - how have you integrated umbraco members, with forum members? This strikes me as the biggest challenge - and Membership providers seems necessary to best support it?
Thanks,
Chris
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bob baty-barr wrote:
is the a config setting to set the root url of the forum???
Unfortunately not that simple. You can add the forum to any page you like using something like. <form runat="server" enctype="multipart/form-data"> <yaf:forum runat="server" id="forum" /> </form> It then uses the current page's URL to build the links, obvisouly with Umbraco if you do a Request.URL (or something simliar) then it returns Default.aspx?umb=Forum or something like that. I've downloaded the YAF source code but for the life of me I just can't figure out where to adjust this.
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ah, did not realize this is how you add it in... very interesting... so, could require some kind of handler within umbraco's config... perhaps Ismail has some insight on this.
bootnumlock - aka bob baty-barr [ http://www.baty-barr.com] Level 1 Certified!
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Guys, I have not done a forum integration. I have gone down the route of website separate and forum separate. An example of site is here and forum is here many sites have a similar take on it although not all. I have on current site im working on done a url redirect so that when you hit /forum url it redirects to forum application directory. Regards Ismail
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Chris McV wrote:
Hi all,
I'm very interesting in a forum too, and haven't ever integrated with one...
To anyone who has - how have you integrated umbraco members, with forum members? This strikes me as the biggest challenge - and Membership providers seems necessary to best support it?
Thanks,
Chris
Supposedly umbraco will soon support asp.net membership providers.
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Okay I got it working with Umbraco - was being stupid as normal. Example is here http://www.catsanddogs.co.nz/forum.aspxThis is using 1.9.1.8 of YAF which does not use the ASP.net Membership provider 1.9.3 is at Alpha so hopefully shouldn't be too far away this version does support the membership provider.
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Matthew, Well done! I've often wanted to do something like this but didn't know where to start. I like what I've read about YAF but have never installed it. You've done a nice job of making YAF and umbraco play well together and look like a single application. Could you give some guidance for those of us who know umbraco but not YAF? How did you do it, mate? :) cheers, doug.
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Okay here are some rough instructions - sorry all done from memory - let me know how you go. http://skiltzonnet.blogspot.com/2008/02/integrating-yetanotherforumnet-into.html
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I am running into an problem now After creating an database and IIS website i have managed to install it, it worked! Next step is to implement it in Umbraco, the difficult part. I created a subdirectory called yaf, also an virtual directory called forum. But when i try to load www.mysite.com\yaf or www.mysite.com\forum i get the following error: Code:Parser Error Message: Could not load file or assembly 'UrlRewritingNet.UrlRewriter' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. (C:\Sites\umbraco_original\web.config line 59) Code:Line 57: <httpModules> Line 58: <!-- URL REWRTIER --> Line 59: <add name="UrlRewriteModule" type="UrlRewritingNet.Web.UrlRewriteModule, UrlRewritingNet.UrlRewriter" /> Line 60: <add name="umbracoRequestModule" type="umbraco.presentation.requestModule" /> Line 61: <!-- UMBRACO --> I have tried to add the location command in the web.config of yaf, not working. <location path="~/yaf" inheritInChildApplications="false"></location> (In the system.web) Also the following command in yafnet.config <root>~/yaf</root> What am i missing or doing wrong?
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I forgot to add the Parser error:
Parser Error Message: Could not load file or assembly 'UrlRewritingNet.UrlRewriter' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. (C:\Sites\umbraco_website\web.config line 59)
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Does it work now?
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No, Still keeping the error with the UrlRewriting
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Did you copy the DLL into the bin folder?
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Yes, i have coppied all YAF files to the Umbraco directory.
The only thing i havent done is editing the web.config in the umbraco directory....
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Hi I went threw the install again and worked fine, i've updated my blog at the address above. Basically I did what you did eg chucked all into a YAF directory and then changed the yaf.config file to this. This in the umbraco web.config I only need this. Code:<section name="yafnet" type="yaf.SectionHandler,yaf"/> and Code:<yafnet configSource="yafnet.config"/> So you can forget about the url rewrite stuff...obviously would be nice to get this working down the track. See my example here http://www.kiwiwebdesign.co.nz/forum.aspx
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